<div dir="ltr">Inside photo under construction<br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ot3zpp5">http://tinyurl.com/ot3zpp5</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Randy Neals <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:randy@neals.ca" target="_blank">randy@neals.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br>Picture of my Radio-Less AllStar Node at W3RWN in Seattle - #28709.<br><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/owwsbjf" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/owwsbjf</a><br></b><br>Behind the front panel is a Repeater-Builder USB-RIM audio interface.<br>I drilled holes in the chassis panel so the LEDs on the USB-RIM would be visible.<br>The plastic case of the USB-RIM is hot glued to the back of the chassis panel.<br><br>Inside is a Beaglebone Black, a 12vdc to 5vdc converter, a small audio amplifier and a speaker.<br>The DTMF mic is a $19 eBay special - GE/MA-Com mic made by Shure.<br>The speaker is from a cheap pair of computer speakers and happened to fit the grill pattern in the case.<br><br>Mic PTT line is connected to the USB-RIM COS input line.<br>There is a jumper on the USB-RIM that provides a pull-up voltage.<br><br>The complete unit runs from 12 volts. It draws about 260ma at idle, and around 300ma peak, I'm running it from a 12vdc 2amp wall-wart.<br><br>Hope to try it over 4G LTE Internet connection this weekend.<br>Would like to see if I can make this work reliably from my car using a cell data connection.<br><br>I usually have my Seattle node #28709 connected to my repeater in Ontario, VE3RTR node 2257.<br>My Ontario call is VE3RWN)<br><br>73,<div>Randy, W3RWN / VE3RWN<br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div>
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